To alleviate the financial burden on middle-class Americans, Clinton emphasized policies such as paid family leave, lowering childcare costs, passing equal pay for women and raising the minimum wage.
He has also emphasized policies on the environment, for instance, that are of growing concern to suburban and younger voters.
Of course, as Wildavsky and other "realist policy analysts" have emphasized, policy-making may not follow "the rational paradigm", where problems are defined first and the most appropriate solutions are selected afterwards.
It was a system that de-emphasized policy matters and concentrated instead on building the kind of consensus needed to cobble together the complex coalitions needed to wield power within the Liberal Democratic Party.
Depending on your own instructional goals, this project could emphasize policy detail, creativity or both.
Despite prepared one-liners and readied ripostes, Bush and Gore in debate may emphasize policy differences or reveal personality differences that ignite interest and forge public opinions.
Rather than comprehensive reform, it emphasizes policy experimentation and relatively narrowly targeted initiatives in order to discover local solutions, and it calls for monitoring and evaluation in order to learn which experiments work.
Ingrid Reed, a political science professor at the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, said that Mr. Booker's future ambitions could force him to step away from Republican supporters, either by emphasizing policy differences or rejecting conservative patrons.
A5 World Briefing A6 NATIONAL A14-24 G.O.P. to Soften Tone At Philadelphia Convention Advisers to Gov. George W. Bush say they are fashioning a Republican national convention that will emphasize policy over partisan vitriol and perhaps abandon the frequent practice of devoting one night to an attack on the opposition.
Hoping to preserve and perpetuate an upbeat tone that has served them well over the last several months, advisers to Gov. George W. Bush say they are fashioning a party convention that will emphasize policy over partisan vitriol and perhaps abandon the frequent practice of devoting one night to an attack on the opposition.
As his allies worked to make the most of Gov. George W. Bush's campaign troubles, Vice President Al Gore went about the hard work of not making news today, manufacturing gauzy pictures in a Maine high school and re-emphasizing policy positions that seem to be touching a chord.
